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<span style="font-variant: small-caps;"><font size="+2">Banksia Ericæfolia. Heath-Leaved |
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Banksia. |
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''Class and Order.'' |
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<span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Tetrandra Monogynia.</span> |
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''Generic Character. |
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''Amenatum'' squamatum. ''Cor''. 4-petala. ''Antheræ'' in cavitate |
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laminarum sessiles. ''Caps''. bivalvis. ''Sem''. bipartibile. ''L. sup.'' |
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''Specific Character and Synonyms.'' |
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BANKSIA ''ericæfolia'' ; soliis approximatis acerosis truncato- |
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emarginatis glabris. ''Linn. Suppl. p.'' 127. ''Willd.'' |
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''Sp. Pl.'' 1. 536. ''Bot. Repof.'' 156. ''Cavan. Icon.'' |
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''vol.'' 6. ''t.'' 538. |
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[[Image:Banksia ericifolia (Edwards).jpg|frameless|230 px|right]] |
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The Banksia, a genus so named in honour of its first dis- |
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coverer, the President of the Royal Society, in a voyage |
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round the world with Captain Cook, is very nearly allied to |
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Protea, and like that appears to contain a great number of |
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species of very various forms and size. Our present plant |
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forms a handsome shrub, thrives freely, and has flowered in |
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several collections; our drawing was taken from that of |
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<span style="font-variant: small-caps;">E. J. A. Woodford,</span> Esq. at Vauxhall, in April 1802. |
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The beauty of the flower consists very much in the length |
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of the style; which, from the stigma being long retained |
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within the anthers, is fanciful bent into a loop: when the |
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efflorescence is complete, the petals expand and let the stigma |
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at liberty. The flower is considered by some as monopetalous, |
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but the petals, in <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Banksia</span> ''ericæfolia'' at least, adhere so lightly |
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at the base only, that they can hardly be kept from separating |
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when removed from the receptacle. The germen in this spe- |
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cies is surrounded with brown hairs very like that of many of |
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the Proteæ. We could not discover any other calyx than |
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the squama of the Amentum, in no respect like that described |
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by <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">Gærtner</span>. A native of New-Holland. By no means |
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tender and may be kept in a greenhouse with Proteas and |
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other Cape shrubs. Propagated by seeds and by cuttings. |
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